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Date: 1956 - 1976

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Craig, George, 1914-1996

Reference: B-157-001/018

Description: One cartoon by Lodge on the 1956 Olympic Games, Melbourne: One cartoon by Lodge on the 1958 Commonwealth Games: One cartoon by Lodge on the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo: Two cartoons by Heath and one by Minhinnick on the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City: Four cartoons by Heath on the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich: Four cartoons by Lodge and three by Heath on the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch: One cartoon by Heath on the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Quantity: 18 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Various sizes. Provenance: The collection had been assembled for the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association and bequeathed to the Library by Mr George Craig

Date: 1968

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 and Lonsdale, Neil 1907-1989:Ten cartoons by Lodge and one by Lonsdale on the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: A-349-034

Description: The cartoon shows three ways in which athletes could be conditioned for the high altitude conditions of Mexico City where the 1968 Olympic Games were to be held by training in the Southern Alps. Leaping across a chasm would have an automatic eliminating efffect for the long jump if the athlete could not make it; a runner is sped up by being chased by an angry mountain goat and a tourist outside the Hermitage Hotel has been knocked out by a shot put. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone, newspaper cutting and pencil 441 x 330 mm